Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Poland and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Skaos to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by the Germs. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hoover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gang Gang Dance,
Hoover,
Pulsallama,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
the Germs,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
kango's stein massive,
Amazonics,
Sam Rivers,
The Happenings,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Agitation Free,
Subhumans,
MC5,
Half Japanese,
Jeff Lynne,
Loose Ends,
Roy Ayers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Model 500,
the Slits,
The Divine Comedy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Guru Guru,
The Sound,
Ultra Naté,
The Count Five,
Barbara Tucker,
Parry Music,
The Slits,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Duran Duran,
Dual Sessions,
Average White Band,
ABBA,
Section 25,
The Saints,
Gichy Dan,
The Fire Engines,
The J.B.'s,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sparks,
Marc Almond,
Basic Channel,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Frankie Knuckles,
D'Angelo,
The American Breed,
Andrew Hill,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
KRS-One,
Jawbox,
The Moody Blues,
Outsiders,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.